Show california green water times superintendent fletcher of the red boy and saratoga copper company is very much elated over the later showings of these two very promising properties he states that both sha shafts its are in ore and what is more the bottoms of same were in ore and the same improves as we gain depth greenwater Green water times the greenwater Green Graen water black jack copper mining company cuts four feet of high grade copper ore in its shaft at a dep depth detthof of seventy four feet the ore averages better than 20 per cent copper with comparative values of gold and silver associated with copper in the green water district the black jack group is one of the great copper showing of the district nevada city miner transcript lon and herbert paine who have been at san francisco looking into the teaming industry to ascertain if there was as sufficient inducements du to warrant their embarking in it there have returned to nevada city they will engage in mining near their old home at lake city the lat latter ter business appearing to present better opportunities than any other they can engage in they are skilled miners and have a promising claim to work san diego news the new nisson mill tor for the golden harvest was shipped up on tuesday of this week and is expected to be in commission bythe by the middle of march an abundant supply of water was struck in the well re recently sunk a pump has been installed and a pipe line laid to the new mill an abundance of high grade ore is on the dump awaiting the completion of the mill it looks as if the fortunate stockholders of the golden harvest might look forward to an aa early aly dividend skidoo news the first shot fired in a newly discovered ledge on the lease yesterday afternoon opened an ore shoot which now appears to be the most sensational strike ever made ma de on the skidoo hill while specimens could be secured that high as one might wish the will assay ns n s average alue of the whole shoot is certainly n cot nt less than five hundred dolla dollars rs to the ton by a little sorting orting the ore values could easily be increased to several times that figure it 1 is a bonanza strike in every sense of the word yreka areka journal at the blue ledge copper mines in the elliott creek section of this county near the oregon boundary on siskiyou you mountain considerable work is going ayi on at present in the line of development over men are now employed and after the spring storms are over a much larger force will be employed this new copper region is destined in time to exceed in output the noted copper mines of keswick and kennett and vicinity in shasta county railroad communication will be a necessity in working the extensive copper ledges on a large scale and a great smelter is also needed georgetown gazette one of the biggest mining deals that has been made near this place for a number of years was closed last week george the nevada capitalist purchased the volcano canyon mine between josephine and forest hill of M savage the purchase price it is said being the claim was located about six months ago by savage I 1 and E W drummond but mr drummond Drum moud recently sold out his interest to savage the ledge of this mine is said to be over fifteen miles long running the entire length of the canyon and crossing the american river at horseshoe bar it runs far down this side of the stream some of the ground is held by a railroad patent but wingfield has filed suits against the company to have the patents set aside skidoo ikels news closely following the report of the magnificent strike on the lease comes the news that hoyt brothers have struck even richer ore on the adjoining ground known as the hoyt lease hoyt are very reticent about giving information as to exact values and what they do not say ls is of a great deal more significance than what they do say about this latest and biggest strike A visitor to the property this morning finds that at a depth of sixteen feet the ledge has widened to five feet with high grade values across the entire width on the hanging wall a streak of five or six inches of extremely rich ore has come in some of this seems to be almost pure metal it is so rich that they do not put it on the dump but are carefully picking it out and carrying it away in buckets for safe keeping the walls of the vein are spotted all over with pure gold from present appearances pe arances the opinion expressed last week that the hoyt lease would prove to be a second mohawk will more than be made good |